William Griggs

William Griggs was a doctor in Salem, Massachusetts who diagnosed the afflicted girls of Salem as "possessed".

Biography
William Griggs was a doctor from the village of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1692 he was called to investigate the afflictions of some girls in Salem. It was up to him to determine how bewitched they were, and he was responsible for condemning many people to death as witches during the Salem Witch Trials.